This Fallen Prey by Kelley Armstrong

 

This is the third book in the Rockton series. Casie and Eric Dulton are out do somethings away from town, when they hear a plane landing at the small airport. They are told by the pilot that they are getting a prisoner and his name is Oliver Brady. They are handed a letter and reading it, they aren't happy. Thay don't have a way to hold someone that's this dangerous. 

When they call Phil, he just tells them that they will have to figure it out. Taking the gag off his mouth just tells them that he will try what ever he can to make him seem like he's incent of whatever the letter says. Then, they take him for a walk a little ways into the woods when gun fire starts. They think someone is trying to kill him and maybe someone has hired a sniper. 

One day or so after that, Oliver is getting sick real bad and it looks like he's got poisoned. They pump his stomach and Val asks to sit with him. They don't know that he has a plan to escape. Which he does. He takes Val with him making it look like she's a hostage. 

Casie and Eric do go out looking for him and they decide to go speak with Brent and see if he can help them, but when they get there he's been shot and dying. Eric needs to find his brother Jacob and see if he's seen him. When they run into a few other people out and they just let them pass without a problem. Later after they've settled down in their camp, they hear a woman scream. They find three people dead and a girl soaked in blood. 

The end of this book, I didn't see coming. you'll have to pick it up and read it. It wasn't to bad and it moved at a fairly good pace. 

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs

 

This is the first book in the Mercy Thompson series. She's a shapeshifter that switches into a Coyote. She grew up with werewolves and Bran was the Alfa where she lived. There was a reason that she had left and went west, Samual. He's Bran's son and a werewolf himself. 

Where she lives now is in a Trailor and her neighbor isn't another werewolf alfa. She's at work when she sniffs another werewolf she doesn't recognize walk into her auto shop. He says his name is Mac. He asks her if he can work to make a little bit of money and she hems and halls for a few minutes. Then, says why not. 

She senses that's he may be in some kind of trouble and wants to find out but, shell wait and see when will be the right time to ask him. She doesn't want to up set a new  werewolf, That can be very dangerous. She knows how that is. 

Then, one night she heads to her auto shop and hears noises coming from out front. It's Mac and some people that don't look like they want to talk. She switches into her Coyote and moves very quietly. What ends up happening and quickly is she has to kill a werewolf that isn't real old himself. That isn't going to turn out to cool with Adam the alfa living behind her. She calls Adam and tells him what happened but, doesn't say anything about Mac. 

When Adam shows up and sees everything, he defiantly isn't happy and seeing Mac doesn't help. Mac becomes a little passive of me and it takes Adam a few minutes to get him to let me move.   Adam takes him home and all hell brakes out. Adam is close to death, Mercy has to kill a few more werewolves in his house and ends up taking Adam to see Bran. 

Samual is a doctor and he takes care of him which leaves Mercy in a hard place. She used to love Samual. Things do progress from there. Adam gets better but, his Daughter Jesse is missing. 

You'll just have to pick up the book to find out what happen. It was really good and worth reading. 

Crush By Tracy Wolff

 

This is the second in the Crave series. Grace has been gone for over 3 in a half months and she doesn't remember what happened to her. When she's told that she's a gargoyle she is shocked. She also has no idea that Hudson is in her head. She figures it out after waking up one morning with blood all over her. 

Grace and Jaxon have been mated for awhile now. She knows that she loves him but, with Hudson around and not understanding how that could be. What she doesn't know is that her and him have become really close and that at first she really doesn't understand any of it. 

She knows that she needs to get him out of her head. He keeps saying things that don't make sense to her. They have figured that he's found at least two of the things that will help him come back. The next few things are going to take more of them to do. Her cousin, Flint and a few others decide to help. But, there is another thing coming and everyone is exciting. It's a contest where groups of people fight to when a special item and one of them is one of the things that they need. 

Hudson acts like he's jealous of her and Jaxon. Mostly its because he knows something she doesn't. Her memory hasn't come back but, a few things told by Hudson has help her realize that he's not as bad as his brother Jaxon says he is. Only time is going to prove otherwise. 

That contest is ready to start and their little group has a lot that they need to do to win. Grace has been learning how to change into her gargoyle form now and is getting pretty good at it. With a lot of help from Hudson they might just win this thing. 

When the court shows up and Hudson and Jaxon's father is the king. Things become really interesting for Grace and everyone involved. 

There is a lot in the book to unpack and I'm not going to spoil it all. You'll have to read the book to find out for yourself. It was a pretty dang good book. 

The Search by Iris Johansen

 

This book three in the Eve Duncan series. Eve has finally got her daughter back and she's getting buried. At least it's over and she and Joe Quinn and their new daughter Jane can live as happily as possible. 

Sarah Patrick and her golden retriever Monty helped out in finding her. Now, John Logan has showed up at he farm house. She knows he wants something from her again. This is something that doesn't make her happy. He never quite tells her everything. He's a man that has plenty of money and just as many secrets to boot. 

Rudzak is a really bad guy and he wants Logan dead. He blames him for his half sisters death even though he's the one that killed her. Logan only tells Sarah so much but, does say he needs her to find bodies that are barred in a plant of his. She and Monty do their job and it's never easy on either of them. Finding dead bodies just gets Monty depressed. 

After heading home, she ends up with Logan coming with. He had been shot and didn't need to come. She ends up having to take care of him. Then, one morning her dog Monty takes off out of the house and she has to track him down. He has found a wolf with her leg in a trap. Logan helps get her loose after Sarah drugs her. She wraps the leg and Monty doesn't want to leave her.

As Logan's leg heals, she is called away to a mudslide and this rescue is going to be a tough one. Logan goes with and doesn't realize that this was done on prepose. Rudzak really does want him hurting and hoping to kill him sooner then later. 

I will say that after they get back to her house, he explains more to her. He also ends up sleeping with her. Things between them isn't easy, Sarah can be a hard one to crack. She's hard headed most of the time and doesn't give in to much. But, Logan ending up in her bed wasn't what she really wanted at first. 

I enjoyed this book. It's fast paced and you learn a little bit more about Logan and Sarah. It's worth the read if you've read the other two. 

Old Bones by Preston and Child

 

This a first book in a new series. Nora Kelly is an Archaeologist,  she is meeting with a historian named Clive Benton about searching for the Dooner party camp in the Sierra Nevada mountains. She is meeting with the head of her department about going up there and with Clive's help they might just find it. Also, there is mention of gold coins left there. They do get the okay. 

Junior agent Corrie Swanson has been doing cold cases for awhile now, at least four months. Picken's family decedents having been murdered and grave robbed and kidnapped. For what reason she doesn't know. Corrie's boss, calls he into his office to allow her to investigate what is happening. This is her chance to prove herself. 

Burleson has a ranch where they can get horses to go up to where they are going to look for that lost party. They will have a few other people with them, so they will have food and horses to carrying their  equipment up there to set up. 

After being up there about a week in a half. One of Burleson's group leaves with some of the bones they find and after a search for a little while they find him at a bottom of a cliff. Agent Swanson is called in to look around, at first she thinks it's a murder. Asking everyone there what they know, she thinks there's more going on then there willing to say. 

After another murder happens, even Nora is starting to wonder the same thing. Plus, its trying to uncover the bones and then, wanting to look for the gold. Everything just seems to be falling apart on her. She not happy, having to be kicked out of her site because of all this. 

I'm not going to spoil the ending. But, I never saw what was coming at the end of the book. It's a pretty good book, worth reading.  

Nocticadia by Keri Lake

 

Lilia's mom is suffering from a weird disease and it's taking her mind. After her mom dies, Lilia wants to find out more things about this disease. 

Her home life isn't the best and she's been trying to help her sister stay in the private school she is at. She's been working nights and going to school herself. She's asked one day to come speak to someone at the school about a paper she wrote. Professor Wilkins says that she's getting a semester at Dracadia University and that it's all paid for. She had been trying to get into that school and this is surprising. Maybe she can learn as much as she can about this disease her mother had now. 

After making the trip to Dracadia she is shown where her room will be and what classes she will be having. Professor Bramwell is the main one she wants to talk too. he has a million questions. Once her classes start, she is sitting a role or two away from the head of the class, next to Spencer. 

When he walks in, Lilia notices how handsome he is. Dark he is, when he speaks she is looking right at him. He then, notices her. He doesn't know what it is about her that has captivated him so much. He tries to keep his head and then, later on he starts to think about her more and more. When she does a crazy thing he takes her phone. 

Lilia midnight class is mostly taught my his TA. She tries to talk to the Professor at the end of the class and because she has so many questions he just blows her off. What she doesn't know is the same thing her mother had, He had given to a guy he brought back to test and see what happens. 

The truth of the matter is, a few people don't want her there. The back story of Professor Bramwell isn't a good one and there is some things she ends up finding out the farther into the semester she goes. Hooking up with Bramwell might just cause some really bad things to happen to her. She needs to find the truth about what it was that made her mom so sick. 

I will give a warning, this book is not for people under 18 years of age. Read the trigger warnings in the book if you are wanting to read this, over all this was a really great story. Yes, there is sex in this. That's all I'm going to say. 

Pick the book up, it's a great story. 

Ricochet by Sandra Brown

 

Detective Duncan Hatcher is sitting in the courtroom waiting to see what's going to happen to Savich and he ends up getting pissed off because the judge Cato Laird declares a mistrial. He's not happy and when his partner Deedee reminds him of the awards ceremony, he really isn't in the mood. She talks him into going and when they get there he makes a beeline for the bar. Across the room he sees a very pretty young woman but, Deedee tells him that she's married. She's married to the judge.

When he leaves, he says something not so nice to her. After getting home and a week or so goes by, they get a call about a shooting in the home of the judge. Duncan doesn't know what to make of it and seeing Elise for the second time doesn't help him. He's very attracted to her but, tried his best to not show it. He lets Deedee take the rains. 

  He's heading out for a run and Elise shows up at his house. She wants to speak to him. She tries to tell him that she was protecting herself from getting killed by her husband. The judge seems very overly protective of her or is there more there than meets the eye. They do a lot of background checks on her. Duncan just knows he's going to be in a lot of trouble if he can't control his thoughts and feeling about her. 

Then, she passes him a note, for him to meet her some place and he lets himself give in to his wanting her. He still isn't sure of what's really going on but, having sex with Elise isn't going to help this case at all. 

Later on that night, Elisa disappears from a bridge. Thinking that she might be dead, Duncan is loosing it. The judge isn't happy and makes himself part of trying to find her. 

I'll just say this, the ending of this book was something I wasn't expecting. Pick the book up, you might just like it. To be honest, this book would make a great movie.